- Mar 1 Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and stage designer, born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1930)
- Mar 3 Arthur Machen, Welsh author (The Great God Pan), born in Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Wales (d. 1947)
- Mar 4 John Henry Wigmore, American jurist and expert in the law of evidence (d. 1943)
- Mar 4 Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist (d. 1947)
- Mar 10 E J Ratcliffe [Edward], British stage and screen actor, born in London (d. 1948)
- Mar 11 Andrew Stoddart, English cricket batsman and captain (16 Tests, 2 x 100, HS 173; Middlesex CCC) and rugby union centre & captain (10 Tests; first captain Barbarians RFC), born in Westoe, England (d. 1915)
- Mar 11 Wobbe de Vries, Dutch linguist, and writer (Something About Word Formation), born in Okswerd, Netherlands (d. 1942)
Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938)
Mar 12 Italian poet, writer (Il fuoco, Intruder), playwright and military hero as part of the elite Arditi storm troops, born in Pescara, Italy
- Mar 12 Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (d. 1945)
- Mar 17 Homer Plessy, American Creole shoemaker and civil rights pioneer (plaintiff in landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson 1896), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1925)
- Mar 20 Ernesto Nazareth, Brazilian pianist dance and classical music composer, born in Rio de Janeiro, Empire of Brazil (d. 1934)
- Mar 21 George Owen Squier, American inventor and Major General in U.S. Signal Corp (d. 1934)
- Mar 21 Hugo Kaun, German composer, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1932)
- Mar 23 Godfried Coenraad van Daalen, Dutch general (controversial Governor of Aceh accused of brutality), born in Makassar, Dutch East Indies (d. 1930)
- Mar 25 Simon Flexner, American pathologist (d. 1946)
Henry Royce (1863-1933)
Mar 27 English industrialist and automobile founder (Rolls-Royce), born in Alwalton, England
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